some time on
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More ballast, mates, more ballast!
(and that means, off with you soggy sandbags.)
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i guess the important thing is to realise that, standing next to those who actually have problems - problems of the sort that are etched in chemicals and defined by the very real constellations of symptoms physical and psychic - we (and we know who we are) are only pretending to be miserable for the sake of handouts. we are not living joan didion's "(the) year of magical thinking" - we are blowing pretend belljars and playing at attention-seeking suffocation. so, we stop.
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More ballast, mates, more ballast!
(and that means, off with you soggy sandbags.)
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i guess the important thing is to realise that, standing next to those who actually have problems - problems of the sort that are etched in chemicals and defined by the very real constellations of symptoms physical and psychic - we (and we know who we are) are only pretending to be miserable for the sake of handouts. we are not living joan didion's "(the) year of magical thinking" - we are blowing pretend belljars and playing at attention-seeking suffocation. so, we stop.
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